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Norman Schwarzkopf on leadership
"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." -- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Kate Carruthers
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Enterprise 2.0 Survey
I'm doing some research on Enterprise 2.0 and need your help. You can help by answering a brief online survey. Click Here to take survey It would be very helpful if you could complete this online survey and also ask your friends and colleagues to as well.
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Openness, personal and community action
For those folks who don't think social networks are real life ... One of my Twitter buddies, @mspecht, has been very brave and open, sharing about his personal experience of depression that led him to take some positive action. He set up Blue Day 2008 and asked people to
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"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where
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Credit crisis and its impact on social media?
I've been reading the new George Soros book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means . While Soros takes his usual pessimistic view he does have some interesting insights into the causes and consequences of the current credit crisis. Interestingly some
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Risk & the Illusion of Centralized Control
A key myth of modern business is that of centralized control in general and of brands, messages and media in particular. In the past, while it was possible for ordinary consumers to hijack brands and messages, it was too hard, time-consuming and expensive for anyone to bother. Thus companies and
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CMOs report reduction & shift in marketing spend to digital
According to recent research by Epsilon "Chief Marketing Officers at many of the biggest brands in the nation [USA] are seeing a major shift in the marketing landscape. Almost two-thirds (63%) of the 175 marketing executives surveyed see an increase in their spending on interactive/digital marketing while 59%
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Death of Newspapers - I don't think so ... not quite yet
While I've said before that I think that the imminent death of traditional media, such as newspapers or free-to-air TV, is over-hyped ... There was an interesting synopsis of Michael Gawenda's A.N. Smith Lecture in Journalism in the Sydney Morning Herald by about "the need
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Continued erosion of traditional broadcast media channels
The old media (a.k.a. heritage media) versus new media discussion continues to rage amongst the cognoscenti but the facts are speaking for themselves. Brian Steinberg writing in Ad Age reports that: fell 13% last season Advertising will move to where the audience is no matter what esoteric debate
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What is all this "social" stuff about anyway?
Everywhere you turn these days there is another "social" something or other - social media, social networking, social bookmarking, social news, social web, etc. But what is all this "social" stuff about anyway? I think that some people have focused on this social aspect of web
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Tough times, web 2.0 & high principles
The test of our commitment to principles is not what we do in good times. Rather the true test of our principles comes in difficult times. The current economic situation seems to be setting us up for such a test. Recently I've been thinking about the principles of
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Telstra and Twitter
It sometimes seems as if Telstra and BigPond have missed all the terabytes of stuff that has been produced describing how to do social media or social networking effectively. Their latest foray into this part of the world - via Twitter - has been amusing to observe. It is almost